Clair B. (Tom) McMahan, Jr.

Neville High School Class of  1948-

Clair B. (Tom) McMahan, Jr. was born on June 29th, 1930 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died on January 12th , 2026 in Bastrop, Louisiana. Services and internment will be in the Saint Matthew Parochial Cemetery Mausoleum on Washington St. and 314 N 11th St. Monroe on Friday, January 16th at 1:00 pm under the direction of Mulhearrn Funeral Home Sterlington Rd. Monroe. Tom lived in St. Louis, Missouri for 17 years attending St. Anne’s in Normandy, Missouri and later moved to Monroe. He graduated from Neville high school, Class of ‘48 and joined the United States Marine Corps, seeing combat in Korea (the forgotten war). After being discharged from service Tom enrolled at LSU in Baton Rouge where he met and married the love of his life, Marilyn Hernandez. He worked at General Chemical in Baton Rouge. Later his father asked him to come to Monroe to be a pilot for McMahan Aviation. He flew for many years patrolling natural gas pipelines. He later became chief executive officer for McMahan aviation, the largest (at the time) pipeline patrol company.